Deck 17: Using Informatics to Promote Communitypopulation Health

Question 1

Imagine that you are a public health informatics specialist and that you and your colleagues are concerned about a new strain of influenza. Which public health data are used to determine the need for a mass inoculation? Which data will be collected to determine the success of such a program?

Answer 1

No Answer

Question 2

What are the advantages and disadvantages of using crowdsourced social media data during a disaster response?

Answer 2

No Answer

Question 3

Which of the following creates the information that becomes the basis for knowledge in the field of public health?

A) Theoretical analysis of recent research
B) The collection and processing of population health data
C) Examination of school-aged children
D) All of these are correct.

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Core public health functions include all of the following except:

A) assessment and monitoring of the health of communities and populations at risk to identify health problems and priorities.
B) formulation of public policies designed to solve identified local and national health problems and priorities.
C) assuring that all populations have access to appropriate and cost-effective care.
D) evaluating web pages for information quality.

Question 5

Epidemiology involves:

A) identifying things that come upon the people.
B) incidence, prevalence, and control of disease.
C) case finding.
D) All of these are correct.

Question 6

A specialized system of data collection to detect trends in the incidence and severity of a specific disease or health-related syndrome is:

A) syndromic surveillance.
B) public health informatics.
C) data warehousing.
D) knowledge generation.

Question 7

Electronic health records may help to promote public health initiatives by:

A) promoting early detection of potential pandemic occurrences.
B) automating syndromic surveillance of emergency department records.
C) generating population-level alerts to be sent to clinicians.
D) All of these are correct.

Question 8

_______ is done to determine the length, amount, and pattern of exposure to the potentially hazardous material.

A) Hazard identification
B) Exposure assessment
C) Dose-response assessment
D) Risk characterization

Question 9

_______ is an estimation of how much exposure to the potential hazard would cause varying degrees of health effects.

A) Hazard identification
B) Exposure assessment
C) Dose-response assessment
D) Risk characterization

Question 10

_______ is an assessment of the risk of the hazardous material causing illness in the population.

A) Hazard identification
B) Exposure assessment
C) Dose-response assessment
D) Risk characterization

Question 11

Risk factor assessments do not complement the vital statistics data systems but complement the morbidity data systems by providing information on factors earlier in the causal chain leading to illness.

Question 12

The overall question the risk assessment has to answer is, "How much risk is acceptable?"

Question 13

The availability of information technology today challenges all stakeholders in the health of the public to adopt new systems that can provide adequate disease surveillance; it also challenges people to improve outmoded processes.

Question 14

A comprehensive surveillance effort supports timely investigation and identifies data needs for managing the public health response to an outbreak or terrorist event. Informatics tools are becoming increasingly important in these public health efforts.

Question 15

Epidemic information exchange is a secure communication system for practitioners to access and share preliminary health surveillance information.

Question 16

Public health informatics uses the same tools as clinical informatics, and thus does not differ widely from clinical informatics.

Question 17

Biosense provides improved real-time biosurveillance and situational awareness in support of early detection.

Question 18

The data processed into public health information can be obtained from administrative, financial, and facility sources. Included in this data stream may be encounter, screening, registry, clinical, and laboratory and surveillance data.

Question 19

A risk assessment may also be called a "threat and risk assessment." A "threat" is a harmful act, such as the deployment of a virus or illegal network penetration. A "risk" is the expectation that a threat may succeed and the potential damage that can occur.

Question 20

Hazard identification seeks to determine the types of health problems that could be caused by exposure to materials that have been identified as causing potential health problems.

Question 21

A nurse in a local public health department is identifying health problems and priorities by monitoring which of the following?

A) The health of communities and populations at risk
B) The national public health funding opportunities
C) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention treatment guidelines
D) Data on recent acute care inpatient admissions

Question 22

A nurse is developing a research study on injury prevention. This research is important to public health because of which of the following?

A) Public health helps protect the health of the entire population.
B) Public health is based in nursing research.
C) Public health is focused on disease treatment.
D) Public health uses nursing research to identify its policies and priorities.

Question 23

A nurse is performing a risk assessment of a community. The indication for the risk assessment is likely which of the following?

A) Contaminants were discovered in the community's drinking water.
B) There was a decrease in the use of motorcycle helmets.
C) There has been an increase in sexually transmitted diseases in the community.
D) There has been an increase in deaths relating to skin cancer.

Question 24

A public health nurse is performing a community risk assessment. The goal of this assessment is which of the following?

A) To reduce risk and improve health
B) To decrease environmental health threats
C) To monitor the impact of prevention programs
D) To collect data on public health risks

Question 25

A nurse is explaining the use of public health informatics to a nursing student. Which statement by the nurse is correct?

A) "Public health informatics can assist to provide adequate disease surveillance."
B) "Public health informatics initiates the timely investigation of infectious diseases."
C) "Public health informatics prioritizes the adoption of nursing terminology standardization."
D) "Public health informatics is used for documentation of disease outbreaks only."

Question 26

A nurse is reviewing reports of infectious diseases in a community. Which of the following tools includes a map with public health data to specific locations?

A) A geographic information system
B) Vital health statistics reports from each county
C) A community database with infectious disease statistics
D) Patient electronic health records at the community hospital

Question 27

A nurse is collecting data on a hazardous material. The data are then submitted to a repository for research and data regarding hazardous materials. Where is this repository housed?

A) The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
B) The Department of Health and Human Services
C) The National Center for Public Health Informatics
D) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Question 28

A public health nurse is reviewing an immunization registry for what purpose?

A) To identify disease outbreaks
B) To enforce compliance with healthcare recommendations
C) To refute data from the national repository of public health
D) All of these are correct.

Question 29

Dissemination of prevention guidelines among public health officials, clinicians, and patients has
emerged as a major benefit of public health informatics.

Question 30

Social media can improve response to mass disasters.

Question 31

A nurse is working in a public health department and is providing patient education. Which of the following is a topic of education related to the purpose of public health?

A) Health promotion
B) Disease management
C) Palliative care
D) Chronic disease evaluation

Question 32

A nurse is explaining public health informatics to a nursing student. Which of the following statements by the nurse is correct?

A) "Public health informatics is the use of information and information technology to improve public health practice and outcomes."
B) "Public health informatics is the use of nursing informatics in public health for disease surveillance."
C) "Public health informatics helps identify the policies, standards, and guidelines for public health administrators."
D) "Public health informatics is used as a database for nursing research priorities in the public sector."

Question 33

A nurse is performing a risk assessment in a community. Which of the following is the first step of the risk assessment?

A) Hazard identification
B) Exposure assessment
C) Dose-response assessment
D) Risk characterization

Question 34

A public health nurse is assessing the risk of the hazardous material causing illness in a community. This effort is known as which of the following?

A) Risk characterization
B) Exposure assessment
C) Hazard identification
D) Dose-response assessment

Question 35

There is a suspected outbreak of influenza at a local elementary school. What data would the public health nurse collect first?

A) Identification of absences from the school related to illness
B) Reports of increased purchases of analgesics at the local pharmacy
C) Increase of laboratory test orders
D) Numbers of visits to local healthcare providers

Question 36

An informatics nurse is working in a public health information organization. Its objective is to support which of the following efforts?

A) Meaningful use of electronic health records
B) Integration of public health databases
C) Creation of standards for surveillance of infectious diseases
D) Geographic mapping of infectious disease

Question 37

A public health nurse uses an infectious disease tracker for which of the following purposes?

A) To collect data on adverse health effects
B) To identify areas of the community that have patients with infectious disease
C) To compare data on infectious disease from different communities
D) To prevent further outbreak of disease through surveillance

Question 38

An informatics nurse is explaining the benefits of public health informatics to public health nurses, which include:

A) dissemination of prevention guidelines.
B) expansion of standardized patient education.
C) mandatory treatment regimens for infectious diseases.
D) data mining of chronic disease in the acute care setting.

Question 39

Timely collection of public health data allows early detection of disease.

Question 40

Public health data include data related to surveillance, environmental health, and preparedness systems.